Yiddish translator
Type Yiddish, in Hebrew letters or YIVO romanization, and translate it into English or Hebrew, with a transliteration and a note on register and word origin.
A Germanic language in Hebrew letters
Yiddish developed among Ashkenazi Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe from a base of Middle High German, absorbing Hebrew, Aramaic and Slavic vocabulary along the way, and it has been written in the Hebrew alphabet from its earliest surviving texts. That combination, a Germanic grammar spelled in Hebrew letters and carrying loanwords from three other language families, is what makes it its own language rather than a dialect of German or a form of Hebrew.
YIVO, the Institute for Jewish Research, sets the romanization and spelling standard most widely used for Yiddish today, and it is what this translator's transliteration follows.
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